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Britain, Netherlands withdraw $2.2 billion backing for Total-led Mozambique LNG Britain and the Netherlands are withdrawing a combined $2.2 billion in support for the TotalEnergies-led Mozambique LNG project, they said separately on Monday, after both hired firms to probe human r...

🚨ICYMI: The UK and Dutch govts will no longer finance the controversial Mozambique LNG project, which is a huge win for people and planet!

Read @reuters.com story: www.reuters.com/business/ene...

UK to withdraw financing for Total’s Mozambique LNG project Energy chief has warned he is ready to ‘exercise all my contractual rights’ if governments do not stand by contracts

HUGE WIN: UK Government pulls $1.15bn in support for the controversial Mozambique LNG project - putting pressure on the Dutch Govt to pull out too.

@financialtimes.com story: www.ft.com/content/b2ea...

Devex Dish: The world has a plan to stop land degradation The view from the U.N. desertification summit on land degradation and how to build a career in agrifood systems.

#COP30 Rich countries are derailing the transition away from fossil fuels by clinging to failed private finance schemes.

Blended finance isn’t working. Public funding is the only path forward.

Must-read via @devex: www.devex.com/news/opinion...

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At #COP30 the EU poses as champion of a #fossilfuel fuel phase-out.

But it doesn’t need others to move first: it funds it, burns it, banks the profits, then points the finger South.

That’s not climate ambition – it’s demagoguery.

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At COP30, Progress on Public Finance Is Critical for a Fair Fossil Fuel Phaseout | Common Dreams As ministers arrive in Belém for the final COP30 sprint, the world must move from words to action: That means ending fossil fuel expansion and unlocking the public finance needed to build a fair, fast...

8/ 📢 New op-ed from the Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development's Lidy Nacpil & @esbast.bsky.social: At #COP30, public finance is the key to a fair fossil fuel phaseout. No more excuses. Rich countries must pay their fair share.

🔗 www.commondreams.org/opinion/cop3...

It's crunch time at #COP30 and we want to remind Global North governments of the obligations they keep trying to escape.

🛑We reject their false finance schemes, and demand the public, grant-based finance our communities deserve.

#PayUp #ClimateFinance

Law scholars shine spotlight on MDBs’ climate loopholes First-of-its-kind opinion lays out World Bank, ADB and shareholders’ obligations under international law

🚨BREAKING: International Finance Corporation @ifcorg.bsky.social, Asia Development Bank & International Bank for Reconstruction and Development put on notice over fossil fuel finance even as govts at #COP30 discuss a fossil fuel phase-out roadmap.

Details ➡️ www.globalcapital.com/article/2flx...

Oil Change International response to COP30 Presidency claims we don’t need public money for the energy transition - Oil Change International Bronwen Tucker, Public Finance lead at Oil Change International, said: “It’s distressing to hear the COP30 Presidency say we don’t need more public funding for the energy transition.

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"The fossil fuel phaseout roadmap we are fighting for at COP30 needs to address systemic economic barriers to the transition, not prop up debt traps and dead ends that prolong the fossil fuel era.”

@oilchange.bsky.social @rlalen.bsky.social @canclimateaction.bsky.social @350.org @foeint.bsky.social

@bronwentucker.bsky.social says: "GS countries can't leverage enough private finance for the transition with the pennies of climate finance they're offered. This approach has been pushed for years & the results are in. Energy transitions are driven by public funding & public planning."

@cop30brazil.bsky.social President do Lago was just quoted @theguardian.com: for a fossil fuel phaseout "you don’t need public money from developed countries".

This is false & risks fuelling tensions in the talks where developing countries facing debt crises underline that public finance is key.

Oil Change International response to COP30 Presidency claims we don’t need public money for the energy transition - Oil Change International Bronwen Tucker, Public Finance lead at Oil Change International, said: “It’s distressing to hear the COP30 Presidency say we don’t need more public funding for the energy transition.

🚨 In the final days of #COP30, we need to be very clear:

📣A just transition away from fossil fuels needs public money, and rich countries need to pay their fair share 📣

The COP30 presidency risks derailing the entire negotiations by saying otherwise.

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Aligning financial flows - all talk, little action? COP30 concludes three years of dialogue on one of the Paris Agreement’s core goals: aligning financial flows with climate and development goals (Article 2.1(c)).

#COP30 ends 3yrs of talks to align 💸 flows with climate goals (Article 2.1c). But 💰 is still going to fossil fuels. Will COP30 be the turning point?

➡️State of play by @oilchange.bsky.social @re-course.org @eurodadnews.bsky.social @boellus.bsky.social @caneurope.org:
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BREAKING: While the UK Government grandstands about climate change at #COP30, a fossil fuel megaproject it is considering taxpayer support for is hit by a new crisis:
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Korea Joins Powering Past Coal Alliance at COP30 - Oil Change International 17 November, Belém – Today, the Powering Past Coal Alliance announced that the Republic of Korea is joining the initiative as a new member, with Kim Sung-hwan, Minister of Climate…

🚨Korea has just joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance at #COP30 - a late but welcome step. However, Korea is yet to take any serious action on oil and gas and continues to provide huge taxpayer-backed finance for international fossil fuel projects.

Read our reactive: oilchange.org/news/korea-j...

📣 BREAKING

At least 531 lobbyists for groups that advocate for a misguided technology that prolongs #FossilFuel use (aka Carbon Capture & Storage #CCS) have gained access to the #COP30 climate talks.

Read: sg.news.yahoo.com/carbon-captu...

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5/ Read our policymakers briefing, with @350.org and @ciel.org @obsclima.bsky.social, to find out about the concrete opportunities to advance a fast, fair and funded fossil fuel phase-out @COP30 & learn what we mean when we say this COP must close with a BAM 💥: oilchange.org/wp-content/u...

1/ At COP28 governments agreed to transition away from fossil fuels. Two years later, fossil fuel production is rising & energy transition finance is falling short. Leaders at @COP30 must now turn promises into action.

This is how: oilchange.org/wp-content/u...

EU tentatively agrees weakened climate target in final-hour deal for COP30: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

BREAKING: A person in the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year. ​

Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price. ​

👉Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more. oxf.am/climateplund...

#MakeRichPollutersPay

UK climate aid is lining the pockets of billionaires Company trusted with doling out government’s climate finance has invested it in luxury car makers and fossil fuel companies

Revealed❗Money meant to help poor countries tackle the climate crisis is lining the pockets of billionaires. Luxury carmakers, telecoms giants & a firm building gas-fired power are getting UK climate aid via @britishintinv.bsky.social

➡️ Full story: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

German Government ‘Wasting Public Money’ With Promise-Breaking Fossil Fuel Finance - Oil Change International Research released today by Oil Change International and ClientEarth, Wasting Public Money, reveals how Germany is at risk of watering down a 2021 pledge to end taxpayer-backed financing of fossil fuel...

1/ 📢 Research released today by @Oil Change International and @clientearth.bsky.social, ‘Wasting Public Money’, reveals how Germany is breaking its 2021 promise to stop using public money to fund fossil fuel projects overseas.
➡️ oilchange.org/news/german-...

Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’ New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

"Fossil fuel companies are the biggest cause of the climate crisis, and their political power is the biggest barrier to solving it,” Oil Change Int'l's research director Kelly Trout told @emdashsanders.bsky.social.

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Ministers Recycle Failed Initiatives On Climate Finance - Oil Change International Today, the COP30 climate summit’s Circle of Finance Ministers, led by Brazilian finance minister Fernando Haddad, released a draft report laying out measures to increase climate finance to developing…

The only “green” thing about the #COP30 Circle of Finance Ministers’ report is how much it recycles failed ideas. Gov must stop dodging responsibility: end fossil fuel handouts, tax the rich, cancel unjust debt, + fund a just transition. oilchange.org/news/ministe...
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EU Ministers Undercut Fossil Fuel Phaseout Leadership with Weak Finance Position Before COP30 - Oil Change International Today, EU Finance ministers approved the EU Council Conclusions on Climate Finance ahead of COP30. In response, Laurie van der Burg, Public Finance Manager at Oil Change International, said: “The EU…

The EU wants to be seen as a climate finance leader, but this is more self-praise rather than progress. It is falling short of ending its fossil fuel subsidies or contributing its fair share to global climate finance.
#COP30 #JustEnergyTransition #ClimateFinance

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Press Release: EU Climate Finance Position, The Emperor Has No Clothes CAN Europe warns that today’s decisions by EU Finance Ministers fall far short of what is needed to unlock global progress on a number of fronts at COP30.

EU Finance Minister's decisions on #climatefinance today give a muddled message.

Private finance isn’t delivering. The EU must scale up public finance, phase out fossil fuel subsidies & back polluter-pays taxes.

🔗 Our reaction: caneurope.org/climate-finance-position-the-emperor-has-no-clothes

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Green energy pact has curbed fossil fuel funding Public funding for international fossil fuel deals fell by up to 78% last year across a coalition of 35 countries, though members of the group, including Germany and the United States, approved new projects, research by a group of NGOs showed on Tuesday.

A new report released by @oilchange.bsky.social, @iisd.org and @foeus.bsky.social reveals that an international alliance to shift public finance away from fossil fuels is working.

Why? International public finance for #FossilFuels was slashed by up to 78% in 2024 ✅

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Green energy pact has curbed fossil fuel funding Public funding for international fossil fuel deals fell by up to 78% last year across a coalition of 35 countries, though members of the group, including Germany and the United States, approved new projects, research by a group of NGOs showed on Tuesday.

Great coverage by @reuters.com of our NEW report showing that among CETP countries, there's a 78% drop in public finance for fossil fuels, or between $11.3 billion and $16.3 billion, compared with 2019-2021 levels, before the agreement was signed.

Read more ➡️ www.reuters.com/sustainabili...